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The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 251
by William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803
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Dramatic and Prose Miscellanies: Lucianus redivivus: or, Dialogues ...

Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 320 pages
...common conversation, and common occurrences :" — " this, therefore, is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who...imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human...
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Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare, r. Then, is raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstacies, by reading human sentiments in human...
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Dramatic and Prose Miscellanies: Lucianus redivivus: or, Dialogues ...

Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...of common conversation, and common occurrences :" — "this, therefore, is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who...imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who...imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious • ecstasies, by reading human sentiments...
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William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who...imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human...
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pages
...would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who...imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human...
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Select plays [5 plays], with notes and an intr. to each play and a life of ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 456 pages
...would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed. " This, therefore, is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who...imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may be cured of his delirious ecstasies by reading human sentiments in human language,...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...leading idea of the critie. He sees nothing higher in Slnk.-p,.Tt: than an exhibition of the real. " He who has mazed his imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him may here be cured of his delirious eestacies, by reading human sentiments in human...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity. This, therefore, is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in /bJlowing the phantoms which other writers rnise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity. This, therefore, is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who...imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human...
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